Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball game at Brookline on Wednesday, between the Freshman Eleven and a picked eleven from the Roxbury Latin and high schools, the freshmen were victorious by a score of 3 goals and 10 touch-downs to nothing...
...Williams College athletic sports Thursday afternoon, the records were won as follows: Running broad jump, Winslow, '85, 18 feet, 9 1/2 inches; throwing hammer, Goodrich, '85, 93 feet; putting shot, 24 pounds, Goodrich, '85, 30 feet; running high jump, Harrison, '86, 4 feet, 11 inches; kicking foot-ball, Spofford, '85, 127 feet, 4 inches; five-mile go-as-you-please, Ferris, '85, 33 minutes, 34 1/2 seconds; throwing ball, Corse, '86, 366 feet; 100 yards dash, Hubbell, '85, 11 seconds; one-mile walk, Rogers, '84, 9 minutes, 14 3/4 seconds; half-mile run, Yates, '85, 2 minutes, 32 seconds...
...Hamilton, '86; 440-yard dash, 53 1/2 sec., by Smith, '83; 220-yard dash, 26 7/8 sec., by Reynolds, '84; putting the shot, 33 ft. 6 3/4 in., by J. H. Briggs. '85; throwing the hammer, 68 ft. 11 in., by Porter, '84; foot-ball kick, 157 ft. 2 in., by Terry, '85; throwing base-ball, 323 ft., by Newell, '83; Scientific; broad jump, 17 ft. 3 in., by Smith, '83; high jump, 17 ft. 3 in., by Smith, '83; high jump, 5 ft. 3 1/4 in., by Dodge, '85. Lawn tennis was tied by three...
...freshmen are for the most part large, well built men, and while the average age is about eighteen there are quite a number of them who long since passed their teens. The class looks as if it would make its mark in anything from dancing a German to playing foot-ball or rowing a race...
...fall regatta has been abandoned, much to the disgust of '85, for that class felt sure of an easy victory in the class races. The reasons given for abandoning the regatta is that it interferes with our foot-ball prospects. What our foot-ball prospects are I really cannot say. We have had prospects ever since our foot-ball commenced, and if they are the same this year as they have been in years past, I would suggest that we hold two or three fall regattas, for the sole purpose of interfering with them...